#poor beat up boys

[daeneryseastar]

hot take maybe but the only reason most show runners/producers/writers/etc. age up the (female) characters from book to show adaptation is to overtly sexualize them and not face mass amounts of scrutiny for it.

put 13 year old daenerys next to 30 year old drogo and the audience understands that daenerys is a victim to him and not an equal. put 22 year old emilia clarke as daenerys next to 32 year old jason mamoa as drogo and they’re seen as a budding romance with a tragic ending (by the general audience) due to their on screen chemistry.

flash forward to today, and now we’re dealing with 21 year old milly alcock playing rhaenyra from 14-19 and how her relationship with (28 year old fabien) a mid twenties criston is seen as -morally acceptable- and not a result of a degenerate pedophile taking advantage of and grooming his charge. “ser criston protects the princess from her enemies, but who protects the princess from ser criston?” rhaenyra was 14 when rumors started speculating that she slept with an almost 30 year old criston. a criston who had know her since she was 8 and had been her sworn shield since she was 9. obviously seeing a teenager in the early stages of puberty next to a fully grown man would emphasize rhaenyra being THE victim, as opposed to the show having an 18-19 year old explore her sexuality and seek out ‘consensual’ sex with her peer bodyguard. the discourse has even reached the point where certain stans try to paint the much younger woman as the perpetrator and aggressor of this event, who forced the unassuming man into having sex with her.

i’ll even take this a step farther, and bring up how if they had shown a 19 year old alicent abusing a 10 year old rhaenyra it would be identified and mutually agreed upon as a reprehensible act on alicent’s part. instead they’re of similar age, so people can attempt to paint the picture as two women of equal standing hating each other, and not a much older woman bullying a motherless child. once again however, some stans even go so far as to try and paint alicent as a victim of rhaenyra, and not the other way around. further cementing this is how both versions of alicent are younger than both versions of rhaenyra, AND how criston is still played by an actor who is younger than older!rhaenyra despite his character being the same age as daemon in canon.

they know exactly what they’re doing too, considering they aged alicent down to give her that innate compassion one typically feels when seeing children being abused on tv (something that can no longer be applied to rhaenyra). despite that never being her story; *she* was the abuser, and rhaenyra was her victim. criston’s victim. it’s a nasty cop out, and i wish more people would call out how sickening it is to flip the switch and attempt to make abusive individuals more sympathetic than the *actual* victims of said abusers.

[billymarvel]

this gotta be one of the worst things to say to a kid whos heroic form is an adult, dick what were u THINKIN

[lady-raziel]

guys….meet Arthur

[eterniravioli]

james vowles is about to rob ollie bearman for his lunch money to pay for those repairs

[colorfulartsynerd]

Heyyyyyy @nixoon-again I have something for youuuuu! My boy got pretty messed up today didn't he? Is there anywhere he DIDN'T get pummeled?? 😅😆

[coxology101]

Listen, I’ll be so disappoint if we don’t dive into Matt’s Catholicism this season. Like, ITS LITERALLY IN THE TITLE IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT Please, I need him suffering with all the internal angst—and then patch him up with kisses. Muah....

[jasontoddsno1simp]

Stop trying to make Jason feel bad for Titans Tower!! That man got other shit to deal with!!

Namely, the fact that his so called father figure wants him dead!!

[daily-suyao]

[befuddled-calico-whump]

and I start to struggle to hold myself back

from busting my head straight through the fucking glass

[honeycombhank]

Omg, Tobias was in really rough shape yesterday.

My rats are so spoiled that they literally don’t know what to do when the routine is off and I’m not getting them out for a couple of days, they start to get cranky with each other very quickly and even sometimes gang up on one of them and let their frustration out on each other. I’ve been sick and unable to get anyone out and in just a few days of this Tobias july fell victim to his brothers and was massively picked on!

Last night I got him out, gave him a cracker to eat, tried to clean him up a little and then put him in a separate cage for the night. Gosh! I hate that this happened! I just don’t want to chance getting them all really sick with Covid if I hold them!

Poor baby!

12/19/23

[emulation-0]

i'm so proud of my son yuji...

I LOVE HIMMMM IVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER... precious son <33 beat that ratty old man up

[thunderheadfred]

[levitatingbiscuits]

ok finally saw across the spiderverse and maybe im just a lesbian but i do not understand the hype about miguel o'hara at all

[kingdomhearts-and-soriku-trash]

UGHH I GOTTA FIGHT HIMMMM.

Is what I would react, which I DID have, but!! I beat him in like three or two minutes :))). I guess leveling up as much as you can in one world is literally the best option lol.

Alsooo:

OH NOO MY BOY NOO!!! THE DARKNESS!!!!

Oop😳.

[demigod-of-the-agni]

I still sometimes think about the plethora of social issues the new Spidey India comics touched but will never be expanded upon due to it being a ""limited run"". extremely infuriating.

[hcttrick]

Lyney: not the strongest of fighters as he states in his story quest.

Also Lyney: